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Pursuit of grants stopped; projects dead in the water - Mount Desert Islander

Pursuit of grants stopped; projects dead in the water
SOUTHWEST HARBOR Residents will not get the chance to vote on Warrant Article 43 at the annual Town Meeting on June 5. 
The article asked if voters want to pursue grant funding for two projects in town, but the Board of Selectmen decided on Tuesday to amend the annual Town Meeting warrant to exclude it. 
Expansion and development of the Manset Dock was one of the projects and developing a parcel of property adjacent to Chris’s Pond that would include low–income housing was the second. Those involved with coordinating the projects were pursuing grant money from the state’s Land and Water Conservation Fund with an application deadline of the end of this month, as well as a federal Small Harbor Improvement Program (SHIP) grant. ....

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Trapping ban clears first committee

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Michelle Lute, national carnivore conservation manager for Project Coyote, next to her dog, Captain Ginger, testifies to the Senate Conservation Committee in support of Senate Bill 32, a bill to ban trapping on public lands. She is testifying from her home in Santa Fe on Tuesday. The committee passed the bill 7-2. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
SANTA FE When Mary Katherine Ray volunteers for Trap Free New Mexico, an organization that opposes trapping of fur-bearing animals in the state, it can be an intense experience.
She told members of the Senate Conservation Committee on Tuesday that she receives emails from those whose dogs have been caught in traps, often including graphic descriptions and photographs. ....

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